Hi Dennis, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > PS: It is personally appealing to me that the Apache project proposes to use > the tools I already use for other projects (i.e., Subversion and JIRA). I > don't have any plans to contribute anything, but it is heartening to know > that part of the learning curve would be handled for me if I chose to do so.
I wouldn't be so thrilled about their use of Subversion if I were you. Many of us went through the period when OOo used Subversion back in the old days, and all I can say is that Subversion had a massive scalability issue dealing with a code base the size of OOo that it brought more pain than its worth, so much so that it actually accelerated the process of finding an alternative VCS. Besides, once you get used to the benefit of using a distributed VCS such as git and mercurial, you can't really go back to the old, centralized VCS such as Subversion. There is a learning curve on distributed VCS, for sure, but it's well worth it in the long term. Kohei _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
